You knew this was coming, so let's get it out of the way. Number two on the 12 lists of Christmas is a look at my favorite Holiday Classics. In reality, it's probably close to everyone else's ten favorites, as there aren't that many out there, but it needed to be included.
And at number ten...
The Ref
Caroline: How can we both be in the marriage and I'm miserable and you're content?
Lloyd: Luck?
Family Man
Annie: Do you like kids?
Jack: On a case-by-case basis.
Annie: Do you know how to make chocolate milk?
Jack: I think I could figure it out.
Annie: Promise you won't kidnap me an my brother and plant stuff in our brains?
Jack: Sure.
Annie: Welcome to earth.
Home Alone
Harry: Why the hell did you take your shoes off?
Marv: Why the hell are you dressed like a chicken?
Scrooged
Frank Cross: If you touch me again, I'm gonna rip your Goddamn wings off, okay?!
Ghost of Christmas Present: You know I like the rough stuff, don't you Frank?
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington: Merry Christmas! And what is your name?
Kid: uh... uh...
Jack Skellington: That's all right. I have a present for you anyway. Merry Christmas! [slips out the chimney]
Mother: And what did Santa bring you, Honey? [kid shows parents his present - a shrunken head; parents scream]
It's A Wonderful Life
Harry Bailey: A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town.
Elf
Buddy: You stink. You smell like beef and cheese. You don't smell like Santa.
Bad Santa
Willie: Don't fuck with my beard.
Kid: It's not real.
Willie: No shit. Well, it was real. But, you see, I got sick and all the hair fell out. SO I have to wear this fuckin' thing.
Kid: How'd you get sick?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Santa?
Willie: No, it was her sister.
Christmas Vacation
Clark W. Griswold: When Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse!
We interupt this top ten list for the following Where Are They Now entry...Remember Nicolette Scorsese, the hottie behind the lingerie counter? Well, let this be a lesson to ya. Don't grow old (holy crap).
A Christmas Story
Ralphie: No! No! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Santa Claus: You'll shoot your eye out, kid
Chop Suey Palace Waiters: [singing] Deck the halls with boughs of horry, ra ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.
Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.
Mr. Parker: Oh, yeah
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I'll start the "what you missed" list' with a couple:
White Christmas (Bing & Danny)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Judy singing the greatest Xmas tune ever)
Also "what you missed" -
This year's "The Ice Harvest" with John Cusack.
It was pretty good, and using the Xmas theme as a cover for "joy" against the wonderful coldness and bleak landscape of Wichita Falls worked out nicely.
"Gremlins"? Look at it for what it is - all the death and carnage was worth it, and the biggest reason? Phoebe Cates in a Cartigan sweater? Yum... friggin.... yum.
And the one EVERYONE seems to miss out on -
DIE HARD! With Bruce Willis! and Hans Friggin Gruber! And the guy from "Family Matters"! etc.!
Just my .02.
So you put a photo from Miracle on 34th Street on the front of this article, and its NOT EVEN in your top ten list?
ONLY the greatest courtroom drama of all (excepting To Kill A Mockingbird)!
Courtroom drama? I think you're forgetting "Liar Liar"
Courtroom drama? Give me "12 Angry Men" or the weekly "Perry Mason," which never forced the viewer to THINK...
50 years later on TV - nothing.
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